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Castle Photo Preview: The Ex Factor

ABC has released a slew of photos from the first Castle Season 5 episode of 2013... and things are about to get a tad awkward.

Titled "Significant Others," the installment will feature Darby Stanchfield (Scandal) reprising her role of Castle's ex-wife, Meredith, as she moves in to the loft to care for a sick Alexis at the same time Beckett's apartment is fumigated.

Why do we have a feeling three will very much be company when this trio shares the same roof for a few days?

Elsewhere, an attorney will be found dead and soap opera stars Jack Wagner and Nancy Lee Grahn will both guest star as recent divorcees, the latter of whom is engaged in a heated battle with her ex.

Click through the photos below to see Castle and Beckett attempt to intervene, along with various other scenes from the upcoming hour: